Shantanu Moitra
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Shantanu Moitra (born 22 January 1968) is an Indian background music producer who has produced music for the Hindi film industry, including 3 Idiote (2005), Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005), Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006), and 3 Idiots (2009), as well as private albums Mann ke Manjeere and Ab ke Saawan by Shubha Mudgal.
He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction (Background Score) for Na Bangaaru Talli in 2014.
Early life and education
Shantanu was born in Lucknow, where his father came from a Bengali musical family. He was a student at Springdales School, Pusa Road, when he and his family migrated to Delhi, where he started in Patel Nagar, West Delhi, and studied at Springdales School, Pusa Road. He was the founder and singer of a band, and in 1982, the band hosted the school's first rock show. "What was even better was receiving an award in school for my contribution to music at a time when my school, Springdales in Delhi, didn't usually have music awards." "I think the award gave me a lot of confidence," he said.
They also received musical instruction from Sushmit Bose, a Springdales alumnus who would occasionally drop in and teach them. He migrated to Chittaranjan Park in South Delhi later in life.
He studied at Deshbandhu College, Kalkaji, Delhi University, and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Economics.
Career
Moitra began his work as a client service consultant at an ad agency, but music remained a passion. When Pradeep Sarkar, then the Creative Head of the department, asked him to write a jingle at the last minute, he began creating music for advertisement jingles. The jingle was "Bole mere lips." The chips brand Uncle Chipps, which became a hit, is my uncle Chipps. Pradeep Sarkar's and several media companies followed him as he created multiple jingles.
This resulted in the creation of music for Indipop albums such as Ab ke Saawan, Mann ke Manjeere: an album of women's aspirations for Breakthrough, and Shubha Mudgal's Sapna Dekha Hai Maine (2003).
Moitra first came to Mumbai in 2002 when he first began working for Sudhir Mishra's Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, his first signed film. He soon formed a partnership with lyricist Swanand Kirkire, beginning with the song "Bawara Mann." He had written a song called Raath Hamari To, sung by Chitra, by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and then on his advice, he started his first Bollywood project, Parineeta (2005), directed by Pradeep Sarkar.
Moitra's music in Parineeta (2005) earned him fame. His music was critically acclaimed, and he was nominated for the Filmfare Best Music Director Award. He received the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent in the same year. He wrote the score for his first Bengali film, Antaheen, in 2009.
He served as a judge for two seasons of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Bangla, a provincial spinoff of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.
He also wrote the book Ferari Mon - Memories by Santanu Moitra in Bengali, which was published by Sudhangshu Sekhar Dey's Publishing.
Shantanu joined the Himalayas in 2016 for a 100-day journey, as well as Dhritiman Mukherjee, which was chronicled and broadcast on YouTube as “100 days in Himalayas” by Roundglass.